CONISTKA. 461 



flesh-red, strongly on costal area and with slight dark irroration, a 

 dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, 



2 . Frons whitish ; thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; abdo- 

 men dorsally whitish irrorated with brown. Hind wing with the 

 underside more evenly tinged with red and irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A., 2 c? , 1 $ type, South to Virginia and 

 "West to Illinois, Iowa. Exp. 44-50 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 324 (1899). 



Head bilobed, broader than high, shining light brown, with 

 dark brown ciuwed vertical band and distinct reticulations. Body 

 sordid brown, mottled, the skin thin, markings nearly obsolete ; 

 dorsal line narrow ; stigmatal line broad, whitish ; cervical shield 

 polished, browti, with light central line and a broad pale spot on each 

 edge ; anal plate brown, light on the sides ; spiracles black. Food- 

 plant, Vihurnwii. — H. G. D. 



2671. Conistra viatica. (Plate CVI. fig. 19.) 



Orthosia viatica, Grote, 6th Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 29 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 221. 



Head and thorax bright rufous, a few of the scales tipped with 

 Avhite, the vertex of thorax browner ; sides of frons blackish ; 

 antennae white towards base ; pectus grey-black at sides ; abdomen 

 bright rufous, greyish at base and with slight sublaleral dark spots 

 on terminal segments, of female whitish above irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing bright purple-brown slightly irrorated with white, the 

 costal edge rufous ; subbasal line indistinct, dark, from costa to 

 submediau fold ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, oblique, slightly 

 and irregularly waved, or almost obsolete; claviform absent; 

 orbicular and reniform lai'ge with fine white annuli, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter rather constricted at middle ; post- 

 medial line blackish with slight fuscous suffusion on its outer edge, 

 strongly and evenly crenulate, very slightly curved ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, grey defined on inner side by a slight rufous line, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely waved ; a fine 

 waved brown terminal line ; cilia pale purplish at base, dark brown 

 at tips. Hind wing pale evenly suffused with brown and slightly 

 tinged with pinkish or ochreous ; a fine waved brown terminal line ; 

 cilia pale pinkish or ochreous ; the underside white tinged with 

 pink, strongly on costal area, a small discoidal spot and rather 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A. 1^,1$ type, Massachusetts, T^ew York, Alabama, 

 Texas, Middle and Southern States. Exp. 58 millim. 



Larva. Head bilobed, broader than high, shining brown, with dark 

 brown curved vertical band and distinct reticulations. Body sordid 

 s-reenish, mottled in brown and blackish with broad diffuse tessel- 

 lated shadings ; dorsal line whitish, narrow ; substigmatal line lost 

 in the subventral colour but its upper edge strongly marked by a 

 waved blackish shade, covering the spiracles and arched upward in 

 the interspaces ; cervical shield dark brown, with central line and 

 a broad pale spot on each edge ; spiracles black. Food-plants : 

 Oak, &c.— H. G. D. 



